The Lexington Mob

trongly coneervative, says of the Lexington s ïb, - I "We feel indignant whcn we read that a free f ress is not allowed in a monarchial j lent - when it is subjecied to supervisión - (o '■ ensorehip - when its conductora are L ed and imprisoned for exercising the righte ' f manhood. What then shall besaid of ns, ( trhen popular violence does oll these thinge - then every principie upon which our i.-istí cu- ' ons are founded, are tromplcd npon - when r nv and right are disregarded - the public N cace jeoparded- ar.d arson and robhery per ! elrated by the wholesale? Slaveholders will r nd tbat revolutinns never gobacluvard - that f beir lawless violence will kindie up a flame e i the bosoms of freemen, which will sweep c ver the land with a pervading power, and ' Dunt! the knell of that dark and tyranuica] yslem which is such a foul diegracc upon uman nature, and upon our national ' jr and honor. Mr. Clay and his intereBts are u ot alone involved in this outrage. A great a rinciple of individual rights - of Ihe freedom c f the prens end of discussion is involved, r hich make8 his the cause of every American c eenian. If for one lliing a Jawless mob may 8 ?stroy a press, because it picases thein not, r ere is no bound, nu limit bevond which c ey may hot go. There is no cause, er high, ond holy, and sacred, bul what has 8 s enemies, If for odvocating one 6et of' n easures, a press muy be cuished, so may it ll ir another. No one is sifc - nothing is placed ïyond (he reach of the pas6ions of the mob P -all are at the mercy of J;uvlos3 violence, if L ich thixig-s are peroiitted lo be done unheeded id unchecked. al Do the slaveholders suppose thit this h the ly to put down abohtionism? If so, they ill find how vain nre their hop;s. At the jndation there lie principies which come me to the heart of every republican - every iristian - every wan. They are (he high d ennoblitig principies of our nature - imitable - unchnnofeable - irre&istible. Their ogress is onward and npward - nothing can eek it - nothing can síay it - save the con - mmation in the giving of liberty to the e- hope to the despairing, and the ej !e rightR of rnan to every human beinc v. ho su ;uthrs upon ourshores. It may bc delnycd Sl hasty, indiscreet, or wrong OCtion, but as r rely as there is a God of justice in Ileuven, f i woik will be accompliöhed." t